UN: Nearly 1,000 people were killed in Iraq in September

Iraq is experiencing a surge in violence that threatens to destabilize its fragile statehood.

Iraqi girls mourn the death of a relative who was one of the victims of the attack on a Shiite mosque in Baghdad's northern neighborhood of Kasra on September 11, 2013. Another suicide bombing on September 14, 2013 killed at least 21 people. (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

There was more grim news out of Iraq Tuesday — nearly 1,000 people were killed in the country in September, according to a report from the United Nations' mission there.

The surge in violence threatens to destabilize Iraq's fragile statehood.

Forty-six people were killed in the latest bombing that targeted a funeral in the nation's south, as violence has become a near-daily part of Iraqi life in recent months.